Monday, 31 December 2018

Today, I made an amusing linguistic connection between an English and Italian song. And the song styles could not be more different.

In England, we have a famous British R&B / hippity hop artist called Craig David. He was very prominent in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

His song, "7 days" reached number 1 in the summer of 2000.

Check out the music video below:

And also the lyrics of the first verse...:

Source:

https://genius.com/Craig-david-7-days-acoustic-lyrics

Now let's rewind to 1964. A young fresh faced regazzo called Bruno Filippini was setting girls' hearts racing. His famous hit "Sabato sera" (Saturday night) was arguably one of his most successful songs.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruno_filippini.jpg I first heard of this song in our high school Italian lesson. I mean, a song must be great if you can find it in an Italian textbook, right? Similar to how you can find Beatles songs in English textbooks.